CCMA Hosts Virtual Studio Visit with Gwendolyn Zabicki May 22

The Cleve Carney Museum of Art (CCMA), located at 425 Fawell Blvd on the College of DuPage campus, presents a virtual studio visit and tour with 2020 Newcity breakout artist Gwendolyn Zabicki Friday, May 22, 12 p.m. This event is part of CCMA’s “CCMA Creates: Stuck in the Studio” series featuring artists who have previously exhibited at the Cleve Carney Art Gallery prior to its renovation into a museum-grade space, as well as artists working on future projects. For more information visit TheCCMA.org.

Zabicki is a painter from Chicago. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005 and her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2012. Her work has shown at Heaven Gallery, Slow Gallery, Roman Susan, Comfort Station, the Hyde Park Art Center, Gallery 400, Morton College, the Riverside Arts Center, and the Bauhaus¬ Universität in Weimar, Germany. Her work has been reviewed in the Chicago Reader, the Chicago Tribune, and the Bad At Sports podcast. She has curated exhibitions at Heaven Gallery, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, the Riverside Arts Center, the College of DuPage and the Illinois State Museum. She teaches painting and drawing at the Hyde Park Art Center. Zabicki's most recent solo exhibition at the Cleve Carney Art Gallery was "On Anxiety" curated by Zabicki in fall 2018.

The late Cleve Carney provided a significant legacy gift to establish the Cleve Carney Art Gallery at College of DuPage. The gallery opened in February 2014 with its inaugural exhibition “Selections from Cleve Carney’s Art Collection.” The gallery is expanding to a 2,500 square-foot museum, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, which will open this fall with its inaugural exhibition, "Jesus of Western Avenue," featuring works by world-renowned multimedia artist and celebrated Chicago resident Tony Fitzpatrick. More information can be found at TheCCMA.org or by calling 630.942.3206.